Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 2 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 3 | pictures or shopping or round the market or just for a walk or for a meal . |
| 4 | The rowan tree ( Sorbus aucuparia ) or in Gaelic , which stands in the corner of the kitchen garden or just beyond the house or byre , has protected the home , the family and the cattle from witches and fairies for centuries , and has endured after many a homestead has been deserted . |
| 5 | She would be waiting for him now , getting ready , perhaps only now getting dressed , or still in the bath or shower . |
| 6 | We can make , first , an important general distinction , with continuing social and sociological effects , between ( i ) that class of material means which depends wholly or mainly on inherent , constituted physical resources , and ( ii ) that other class which depends wholly or mainly on the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces . |
| 7 | Clearly you are not going to do all this in an hour , in an afternoon , or even in a day or two . |
| 8 | Only if the capital sum is paid directly or indirectly to the settlor or the spouse of the settlor can the provision apply . |
| 9 | or indeed from a resignation or premature retirement following the procedure , must generally be met from outside the school 's own budget share . |
| 10 | … a Messuage or Tenement with the Outhouses , Yards , and Hereditaments , adjoining or near thereto , now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of Charles Titford … |
| 11 | Certain roads in Frome are to be widened : among the properties affected are ‘ … a Messuage or Tenement , with the Outhouses Yards , and Hereditaments , adjoining or near thereto , now or late in the Tenure or Occupation of Charles Titford 19 June 1797 . |
| 12 | The uniform ‘ polis ’ , by contrast , feels that regardless of the offence or its value , he is primarily dealing ‘ at first hand ’ with ‘ prigs ’ and is thus fulfilling another metaphorically prized position as ‘ a good collar feeler ’ . |
| 13 | Any café 'll do , but you ca n't use any of them more than once in a while or they start chucking you out . |
| 14 | Comedy is radical , too , in the sense of forcing the reader to reconsider traditional reverences : tragedy can flatter and soothe with an assurance that even in the dungeon or on the scaffold the heroic mind is invulnerable . |
| 15 | This is , of course , a far more optimistic view of the location and nature of power in capitalist society than either of the elite or Marxist theories which we have outlined . |
| 16 | But the development of trusts and the final disappearance of common law dower rights in 1833 meant that until the late nineteenth-century reassertion of women 's independent property rights , a wealthy widow was much more dependent on her male kin than either in the past or today . |
| 17 | And so after a month or so 's arrears accumulated she got the inevitable form — an eviction notice . |
| 18 | Jung 's distinction drew attention to whether a person relates predominantly to others and less to the self or vice versa . |
| 19 | You simply screw the strips to the walls just under the ceiling and just above the skirting or baseboards to make a kind of frame , and use the special tool provided to push the fabric into the frame and secure it in position . |
| 20 | And outside in the chora or hinterland , and virtually ignored by Thucydides , were the ‘ true blacks ’ , the Sikel peasants or serfs . |
| 21 | Again , if you find you arc always walking back and forth to a larder or pantry , or to shelves at the other end of the kitchen , a storage trolley or cart which you could wheel up when necessary should help . |
| 22 | But no response came from the darkness , and after swaying precariously back and forth for a minute or two , his feet slipped on the twisting bamboo rods and he fell to his knees . |
| 23 | She twitched the hand-written parchment pages back and forth for a moment or two looking for them , then caught his amused glance . |
| 24 | Anxious to lead their lives in accordance with a strict and literal interpretation of predestination , experimental Calvinists sought to distance themselves both religiously and socially from the reprobate or ungodly . |
| 25 | For several years , she had not been attending school regularly but had instead been sent on provincial theatre tours , first with a dancing troupe and later as a violinist or actress . |
| 26 | Dinosaur size is a vitally important subject , bearing as it does on the controversy concerning metabolism and the generation and conduction of heat , and hence on the susceptibility or otherwise to changes in climate . |
| 27 | Order 20 , r 12A provides as follows : ( 1 ) Subject to paragraph ( 2 ) , at any stage in an action or matter the court may , if it thinks fit for the purpose of disposing fairly and expeditiously of the action or matter and saving costs , direct any party to serve on the other parties , on such terms as the court shall think just , written statements of the oral evidence which the party intends to lead on any issues of fact to be decided at the trial and RSC Ord 38 , r 2A shall apply to a direction under this rule . |
| 28 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 29 | That 's why er people who come to our company and then after a year or so think they can go away and do this on their own , ca n't do it . |
| 30 | are managed by boards of governors , whose constitution varies from school to school , but which include representatives of parents and teachers , and sometimes of the DENI or an Education and Library Board . |